RECENT ANGLICISMS IN ROMANIAN. EVOLUTION AND INTEGRATION

The origins of the contact between English and Romanian culture, and within it the English influence on the Romanian language can be traced back to the sixteenth century. A very important wave of English borrowings in Romanian began at the turn of the 20th century and coincided with the intensification of economic and cultural contacts, being encouraged by Romania’s industrial and economic development on West European models, many of them of British origin.